Google image model
Nano Banana AI Image Generator
The original Nano Banana: playful ideas, made to look intentional.
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At a glance
- Provider
- Best for
- Campaign concepts, stylized product stories, and playful social content.
- Reference images
- Up to 14
- Price
- 4 Credits at default settings
Character
Nano Banana is the original expressive model in the line: campaign concepts, stylized product stories, and scenes with a sense of play.
Nano Banana listens for the idea inside a prompt. A strange combination, a character, a product with a personality: it tries to make that combination feel intentional. The result is often more designed than a raw sketch and more imaginative than a straight catalog photo.
Text to Image and Image to Image are both part of the model. It is the right Nano Banana when you want that original voice specifically, rather than the later resolution steps of Nano Banana 2.
Style
How Nano Banana tends to see a picture.
Play with polish
Odd ideas can look finished. The charm is controlled, not scribbled.
Characterful subjects
People, creatures, and products can carry an attitude. Describe it.
Stylized storytelling
Campaign concepts and fables suit it. A bare white catalog sweep is a weaker use of the voice.
Coherent worlds
Color, costume, and place usually agree with each other. Name the world if you have one.
In practice
The work this model is built to carry.
Campaign concepts
The picture that explains a campaign before the system exists.
Social content
Posts with a point of view, not only a product.
Product storytelling
An object given a scene, a character, or a ritual.
Reference-guided edits
A source image pushed toward a more expressive treatment.
Briefing
Write the interesting part plainly. The contrast, the character, the object doing something unexpected. Then add the visual world: illustration, photograph, stop motion, editorial.
Prompt fidelity is a strength. If a detail matters, name it once, clearly, instead of repeating it in three adjectives.
Lead with the idea
The first sentence should contain the thing that makes the picture specific.
Choose this voice on purpose
Nano Banana 2 adds resolution steps. Stay here when you want the original Nano Banana character.
Style is a noun
Name a real visual world. 'Children’s book gouache' or 'night market photograph' is more useful than 'beautiful.'
How Nano Banana compares
Not sure it is the right pick? Here is when another model is the better start.
- Nano Banana 2
Choose Nano Banana 2 when you want the later resolution steps of 0.5K, 1K, 2K, or 4K.
- Nano Banana Pro
Choose Nano Banana Pro when the idea is chosen and the picture has to be finished.
- GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
Choose GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst when the image needs layout and type.
Nano Banana FAQ
Nano Banana is the original expressive model in the line: campaign concepts, stylized product stories, and scenes with a sense of play. A strange combination, a character, or a product with a personality comes out looking intentional.
Choose the original when you want that original voice specifically. Nano Banana 2 adds the later resolution steps and a broader aspect set.
Yes. Image to Image keeps the subject and changes the telling, pushing a source image toward a more expressive treatment.
Lead with the idea, then name a real visual world. “Children’s book gouache” or “night market photograph” is more useful than “beautiful”.
The price depends on the resolution, the number of outputs, and whether you use a reference image. At default settings, Nano Banana costs 4 Credits. Create always shows the exact price before you start.
Yes. Images generated while a paid kitchen is in force include commercial use, including through the end of a period you already paid for. That permission stays with those images after the kitchen ends, subject to our Terms. Images generated with starter Credits, or while no paid kitchen is in force, are for personal, non-commercial use. See Pricing.
More in the Nano Banana family
Same family, different jobs. Pick by the work in front of you.
- Nano Banana Pro
Bold color, finished for publication: faces, fabrics and fine detail hold up close.
- Nano Banana 2.1
Nano Banana color in extreme frames, from 1:8 tall strips to 8:1 banners.
- Nano Banana 2
The main Nano Banana for imaginative scenes, product stories and social frames.
- Nano Banana 2 Lite
The sketchbook Nano Banana: try ideas fast, then finish the winner on 2 or Pro.
Cook with Nano Banana
Create opens on this model. Write the prompt, set the frame, and keep the image on your private shelf.
Create with this modelNano Banana is a model made by Google. Model names and logos belong to their owners, and image.cooking is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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